The Witcher 3 is a triumph. It’s one of the better games I’ve played this year and does something few open world games manage to do; not kill players with the boredom of a billion uninteresting things to do. Even its paid-for DLC is excellent – with the first one, Hearts of Stone, garnering widespread critical acclaim.
Most of the team has moved on to the next game though; Cybernunk 2077. Thematically and aesthetically, it’s going to be a very different sort of game to The Witcher 3 – though you’d expect given that game’s success that the temptation would be to take the futuristic cyberpunk setting and transpose it atop The Witcher 3’s framework – because that would still be a good game. But that’s not what’s happening.
Saying very little at all, CD Projekt RED’s Lead Quest Designer for Cyberpunk Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz said that while they’ve definitely learned things making The Witcher 3 and will keep successful elements, Cyberpunk will offer a completely different experience.
“Definitely, we want to keep the things that were good about it [the quest design system] for Cyberpunk, and basically we don’t want to change things that were working properly. So we will stick to the guidelines that were working.
I think there are things that we could have done better, so we will adjust it to Cyberpunk’s requirements. Also, it’s a completely different game, it’s obviously an RPG as well, but it has totally different systems. We need to focus on making the gameplay fun in different ways than sword fighting is.
So I think we will have to adjust, but like I said, we will try to keep all the good things that we did on The Witcher.”
We know very little about Cyberpunk. Like many games, films and books with a similar setting it’ll focus on a dystopian futuristic world in which ultra-modern technology co-exists with a degenerated human society. It was announced in 2012 – and has no release date as yet. I wouldn’t expect to see it until 2017 at the earliest.
Last Updated: November 2, 2015
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 2, 2015 at 12:41
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HairyEwok
November 2, 2015 at 12:48
Me trying to say the Lead Quest Designers name.
https://33.media.tumblr.com/56102a433ba0d975aa956ddf914758cf/tumblr_mq7uz7C8QV1s11tiho1_500.gif
Hammersteyn
November 2, 2015 at 12:53
Seems…… suggestive
WitWolfy
November 2, 2015 at 12:55
Maybe thats how he introduces himself to women as well. hehehe
The Sten
November 2, 2015 at 12:54
XD
Sageville
November 2, 2015 at 14:27
DOOD NOOOO!!
Fek now I’m the office guy laffing at his screen!
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 2, 2015 at 14:29
What’s that Miley? Timmy’s fallen down the well?
RinceThis
November 2, 2015 at 14:30
You’re in a well!
Rock789
November 2, 2015 at 14:56
o_O
Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja
November 2, 2015 at 13:02
Golden, this deserves to be featured
Hammersteyn
November 2, 2015 at 12:51
a completely different experience to the Witcher 3…… so it’ll have DRM?
*runs
Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja
November 2, 2015 at 13:01
xD
Allykhat
November 2, 2015 at 13:03
Doing a lot of running today I see?
If you keep this up you’ll likely get… Hammered… 😀
*runs too
Hammersteyn
November 2, 2015 at 13:03
hehehehehe
Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja
November 2, 2015 at 13:04
[awaits the impending earthquake of all the hammer running]
Allykhat
November 2, 2015 at 13:06
Or hammer dancing :X
Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja
November 2, 2015 at 13:20
Oh you
RinceThis
November 2, 2015 at 14:30
Zing!
Viking Of Science
November 2, 2015 at 12:56
Just look up the Cyberpunk 2020 Tabeltop RPG, by Mike Pondsmith, It should give you a fair idea of the System/Setting etc.
Allykhat
November 2, 2015 at 13:02
After playing Witcher, stil am, and keeping a nose to the ground for this game, I’m rather keen to be honest.
Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja
November 2, 2015 at 13:03
Now if I can only tear myself away from Warframe to finish my NG+ of W3, then I’d be able to play the expansion
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
November 2, 2015 at 13:25
Every time I read news about this, I end up learning nothing… All I know is that it’ll be like The Witcher 3, but it also won’t be like The Witcher 3, which is a bonus…or so I think…
RinceThis
November 2, 2015 at 14:31
Doesn’t matter if it’s completely different, it’s going to be the bestest with no DRM, just like Witcher III Oh, fuck.
Nikola
November 2, 2015 at 14:49
Hey hey DRM is a very touchy subject around here be careful he could spawn out of nowhere again!
Mossel
November 2, 2015 at 14:54
He who shall not be named. xD
Nikola
November 2, 2015 at 15:06
I heard if you speak his name fast 3 times he appears out of thin air!
Deceased
November 3, 2015 at 10:48
Ryanza
Ryanza
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Ryanza
RinceThis
November 2, 2015 at 15:04
But Craig misses it!
Nikola
November 2, 2015 at 15:06
We all do!! #bringhimback
Nikola
November 2, 2015 at 14:51
These guys can have my money and my pre-order after Witcher 3 honestly. I even gladly payed for their Witcher expansion and was not dissapointed even a bit:)) I actually pre ordered Hearth of Stone and just realized I have pre-ordered DLC LOL!!
Tulipdame
November 2, 2015 at 15:58
Cybernunk???
CodeDisQus
November 2, 2015 at 20:43
Been excited about this game ever since that awesome trailer (which showed next to nothing) in 2012 I think…..hurry up 20….whenever!